Manual Samuel - Last Tuesday Edition
Give it 2 hours
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 4 reviews are negative (27%); after 4h it's 1 in 11 (9%).
- Fully opens up by hour 4.
- 25% of players who start reach the ending.
- The biggest drop-off is between “To hell with Hell” (Complete Level 2) and “Bad Everything Day” (Complete Level 3): from 95% to 79% of starters.
- Only 60% of owners have even the first achievement — the rest barely played.
When it gets good
Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.
before it gets good opening up fully opened up
Based on all 3,630 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 292 reviews: 2.8h for positive, 2.3h for negative. Almost every game is rated lower in the first 2–3 hours: that window includes refunds and quick first impressions. What matters is how deep the dip is and how fast the game recovers.
Where players quit
Share of players who started the game and reached each story milestone. 100% is the most common achievement (60.3% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Feces Happen Complete Level 1 100%
- To hell with Hell Complete Level 2 95% −5
- Bad Everything Day Complete Level 3 Most players quit here 79% −16
- CarPoolin' Complete Level 4 66% −13
- OK Papa Complete Level 5 56% −10
- All in a day's work Complete Level 6 42% −14
- No Child Left Behind Complete Level 7 37% −5
- No Refunds! Complete Level 8 29% −8
- Good job, Sam! Complete Story Mode Single Player 25% −4
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (36)
story milestone ending side
- Feces Happen Complete Level 1 100%
- To hell with Hell Complete Level 2 95%
- Bad Everything Day Complete Level 3 79%
- Skip right to the action Skipped a cinematic 75%
- CarPoolin' Complete Level 4 66%
- Made Tony open a cafe... Tip Tony 62%
- OK Papa Complete Level 5 56%
- Treat yourself twice a day Drink two cups of coffee 43%
- All in a day's work Complete Level 6 42%
- No Child Left Behind Complete Level 7 37%
- Stairway to the living room Didn't fall down the stairs 33%
- No Refunds! Complete Level 8 29%
- Blink 2000 times for yes Blink 2000 times 29%
- Good job, Sam! Complete Story Mode Single Player 25%
- Piss Perfect Made no stains on yourself 21%
- ...then blew it up Blow up Tony 20%
- Character-driven story Didn't skip any cinematics 19%
- Wordsmith Spoke perfectly 19%
- Slow down dude! Drove 150 km per hour 16%
- For The Scene Dye your hair bean brown 15%
- Good job, Sams! Complete Story Mode Co-Op 8.8%
- Timeless Hair Dye your hair Liphidium Green 8.6%
- Hippie Boy Went to work without shoes 7.5%
- RoboCorpse Kill every robot 6.6%
- Take my breath away Completed Sams house only breathing in 15 times 5.1%
- #hashtag Found every hashtag 4.1%
- Bronze before Brains Get bronze or higher on every time trial 4.0%
- Silver Spoon in his Mouth Get silver or higher on every time trial 4.0%
- Golden Furniture Get gold on every time trial 4.0%
- HOLY FECES! Unlock all the Achievements in Manual Samuel 3.8%
- Party in front, business in the back Simultanously rock perfect hair and a bloody face 2.8%
- Notice Me! Dye your hair cosmic brown 1.0%
- Amazing Posture Beat Challenge- or Speedrun mode without going limp or doing the splits (except you know when) 0.7%
- Golden Hair Beat Challenge- or Speedrun Mode with perfect hair 0.7%
- Iron Lung Beat Challenge- or Speedrun Mode by breathing in a maximum of 35 times, and never fainting. 0.7%
- Run Sam, Run! Beat Speedrun Mode in one hour or less 0.7%